Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sent messages to all members of Congress terminating their positions, stating “Your performance has not been adequate to justify further employment.” All Democratic and independent members of Congress, as well as two Republicans, found themselves locked out of their offices after everything inside had been confiscated.   read more

Kathleen Sebelius, President Barack Obama’s second choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services, is a political moderate who works well with Republicans and possesses wonkish understanding of health policy. But she did little during her time ...   read more

As Americans face an economic crisis that is worsening by the day, it is time to ask whether U.S. taxpayers can afford to maintain the estimated 1,000 overseas military bases that the nation continues to operate.   The Pentagon officially report...   read more

President Obama’s lawyers announced last month that he will be upholding Bush administration policy that forbids detainees imprisoned at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan from challenging their imprisonment in U.S. courts. This action raises the poss...   read more

The Salt Lake Tribune shines a light on a small but growing trend: refugees from Iraq who came to the United States to seek safety and a better life, but find so few opportunities in the U.S. that they are risking danger by returning to Iraq. The ...   read more

In testimony before a House of Representatives subcommittee, Gordon S. Heddell, the Acting Inspector General of the Department of Defense, listed numerous appalling examples of wasteful payments to defense contractors, mostly dealing with the wars...   read more

If the third time is indeed the charm for President Barack Obama’s latest choice for Secretary of Commerce, then the administration will be getting one of the Democratic Party’s biggest advocates for free trade—and someone whose political career a...   read more

Five former executives of W.R. Grace & Co. appeared in court Monday morning in Missoula, Montana, for the opening day of the most important environment-related criminal trial ever filed against a corporation. For 27 years, W.R. Grace operated a ve...   read more

On February 24, the United States Mint released the District of Columbia quarter, featuring jazz great Duke Ellington on the tails side. This is the first time that an African-American has been featured on a general circulation (non-commemorative)...   read more

President Obama’s apparent nominee to be the nation’s new “drug czar,” Robert Gil Kerlikowske, has spent nearly 30 years in law enforcement, including a stint as a narcotics officer and eight years as Seattle’s police chief, during which he downpl...   read more

The Department of Energy cannot account for significant quantities of nuclear materials at 15 of 40 licensed locations, according to a report released on Monday by the Department of Energy’s Inspector General, Gregory Friedman.   More than 100 a...   read more

Although China has recently surpassed the United States as the world’s biggest CO2 emitter in 2007, new research shows that about a third of all Chinese carbon emissions are caused by the manufacturing of goods for other countries, particularly de...   read more

The Army Emergency Relief (AER) program was founded in 1942 as a non-profit organization entwined with the U.S. Army to help soldiers and their families in need. Traditionally uncontroversial, AER hands out loans, grants and scholarships, and help...   read more

A solid majority of Americans want an investigation into some of the seemingly illegal excesses of the administration of George W. Bush, such as the use of torture, secret prisons and wiretapping without warrants. The question is: What kind of inv...   read more

Times may be looking bleak for Chinese workers, but for China’s leaders and the banks they control, the global economic crisis is an opportunity to make investments around the world at bargain prices. This month alone, China has signed oil agreeme...   read more

The United Nations World Heritage List honors 878 cultural and natural sites that have “outstanding universal value.” Examples include the Acropolis in Greece, the Taj Mahal in India, Stonehenge in England and the Grand Canyon in Arizona. So it ma...   read more

The current identification system used by the federal government, the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, is ten years old and out of date. The FBI, with primary contractor Lockheed Martin, is developing, for $1 billion, its re...   read more